Ascension Through Generations

July is full of fire and the scorching sun is shining in the sky.

Waves of waves rolled up, lapping at the high and low rocks below Aoshou Cliff.

At this time, in the Guanlan Pavilion on the third floor of Wanghai Tower on the top of Aoshou Cliff, seven young men and women with different styles were waiting with solemn expressions. Some people's faces were more obviously anxious.

Not long after, there was a sudden noise downstairs.

"Back, the Third Young Master is back!"

Hearing this sound, the seven members of the Zhao family in Guanlan Pavilion looked at the door almost simultaneously.

At this moment, a young man with a white robe and a jade crown, a slender figure, pink face and thin lips happened to appear and hurriedly walked into Guanlan Pavilion.

"Third brother, are you done?" Zhao Damo was the most impatient. When he saw the visitor, he immediately asked with an expectant look.

Several other seniors also looked at Zhao Dali, the handsome fellow of his generation, with different expressions.

Zhao Dali shook his head with a gloomy expression.

"well!"

Everyone sighed in unison when they saw this.

The thin-lipped Zhao Damo and his "third brother" Zhao Dali were in the same room. Seeing this, he couldn't help complaining, "Zhao Keqing's vision is too high! The third brother is the most talented and talented among us!" Even Third Brother doesn’t like this. I think he clearly did it on purpose. He said he was accepting a disciple, but it was just a lie!"

As soon as Zhao Damo finished speaking, Zhao Dali suddenly changed his expression and shouted urgently: "Shut up!"

"Third brother...?!" Zhao Damo looked aggrieved.

"Stop, don't slander Senior Zhao!" Zhao Dali's tone became more severe when he saw this.

After speaking, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Senior Zhao has decided to accept Uncle Nineteen as a registered disciple."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was in an uproar.

"Uncle Nineteen?!"

"Zhao Zhao Dingda!"

"Impossible, how could Zhao Keqing like that talkative, lazy guy!"

"Yes! Could it be that Zhao Keqing was deceived by 'Dading' with sweet words?"

"Uncle Nineteen is only at the third level of Qi refining. He can't even compare to me. How is this possible?"

Just when the elders of the Zhao family were in a difficult mood, there was a warm atmosphere in the Dianjing Mansion under Aoshou Cliff.

In the living room, Zhao Sheng sat in the center with a calm expression, while Zhao Yunxian of the Zhao family sat at the top on the left with a serious expression.

At this time, below the two of them, a middle-aged man with an average build, unspectacular appearance, and a greasy mustache was respectfully holding a bowl of Suxin tea and handed it to Zhao Sheng.

"Disciple Zhao Dingda, respectfully invite Master to have tea!"

Zhao Sheng took the spirit tea, took a sip, and said calmly: "Get up! From today on, you are the first named disciple of Cen Hezi. Take this "Essence of Alchemy". Memorize it first. Know it by heart, and then come to me again. Go down!"

"Yes, Master!"

Taking the jade slip handed over by his master with both hands, Zhao Dingda bowed his head in response, then bowed and exited the living room.

Seeing the person leaving, Zhao Yunxian's eyes flashed, he suddenly laughed, and asked deliberately: "Fellow Taoist Zhao, I don't understand. There are many young and talented people in my Zhao family, and all of them are infinitely better than Zhao Dingda. Why did you choose to pick him?" Where was he hit?"

"To be honest with fellow Taoist Zhao, the most important thing about Pindao is the eye. Zhao Dingda can barely catch Pindao's eyes. So I chose him." Zhao Sheng said with a calm expression.

Zhao Yunxian was startled when he heard this. He glanced at Zhao Sheng with a slightly strange expression and thought to himself, "This means that others don't look down on me. Are you so casual about accepting disciples nowadays?"

Thinking of this, he comforted himself helplessly, "It doesn't matter, the meat will rot in the pot anyway, no matter who learns alchemy! The key question is whether Cen Hezi can sincerely pass on the art of alchemy."

Although the Zhao family is famous for its weapon refining, if a cultivating family wants to continue to grow and develop, it cannot have too many flaws.

Zhao Sheng not only needs weapon refiners, but also alchemists, talisman makers, formation masters and other experts in cultivating immortals.

Therefore, three days ago, in a casual conversation, he tactfully tested whether the new guest minister wanted to accept a disciple. Unexpectedly, the other party was unexpectedly cheerful and agreed to accept a child of the Zhao family in just one sentence.

When Zhao Sheng returned to the family, he originally had the intention of recruiting disciples to pass on the alchemy skills. Zhao Yunxian's question was exactly what he wanted, so there was no way he could disagree.

As for why he accepted Zhao Dingda as his disciple?

First of all, Zhao Dingda is Zhao Dingtian's cousin. In terms of blood relationship, the two are the closest.

Secondly, Zhao Dingda not only has the fire spirit root, he is also an apprentice who has studied alchemy for more than ten years. He has a certain foundation in alchemy, which can save him a lot of energy.

The most important thing is that the rest of the Zhao family is not up to par, and they don't even have the right mentality. They all seem to be respectful and polite, but they hide their horns, which makes Zhao Sheng unhappy.

Seeing that Zhao Yunxian was embarrassed and silent, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but change the topic and reminded: "By the way, Fellow Daoist Zhao. As far as Pindao knows, this sea monster tide is coming again!"

Zhao Yunxian's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he nodded with a heavy expression, "Zhao has received the warning from Longshou Island. No more than two years at the latest, the sea monster will definitely offend our human territory again. I just don't know about this wave of monsters. How big is it? I hope it’s not something that happens once in a thousand years.”

"It shouldn't be like this. If it happens once in a thousand years, it won't be so 'calm'.

By the way, seeing that the demon tide is coming, are the nobles fully prepared? But where is the need for Pindao to take action? "

When Zhao Yunxian heard this, his face showed gratitude and he said repeatedly: "I am extremely grateful to the Taoist Master for understanding the righteousness so well. Qionggui Island is well defended, and I am not worried about sea beasts attacking the island. But now Longshou Island has issued a defense order, We ordered one of our clan to send one foundation builder and five late Qi refiners to garrison on Longshou Island. So if the demon tide comes, Zhao hopes that the Taoist Master can sit on the Dome Turtle treasure ship and try to keep the transportation between Dome Turtle Island and the outside world as smooth as possible."

Although the other party's words were vague, Zhao Sheng had completely understood what he meant.

Generally speaking, during the sea monster tide, it is rare for sea monsters to attack the island and massacre human beings.

After all, most sea beasts are marine creatures, either unable to climb onto land or extremely unaccustomed to the land environment.

Of course, when the sea beast reaches the third level, the land and air environment are no longer obstacles.

As long as they want to, killing an island's creatures is not a problem at all. However, most of the sea beasts above the third level have developed their intelligence and generally will not deliberately kill ant-like mortals. On the one hand, they are afraid of the human race's golden elixir retaliation, but on the other hand, the golden elixir monsters who have no sense of the same race are "lazy" and are too lazy to care. There is no benefit and they are too lazy to take action.

In fact, the impact of the sea monster tide on the human race of the Broken Star Sea was only secondarily to killing people, but the most severe impact was on the transportation of the Broken Star Sea.

It is conceivable that hundreds of millions of sea beasts, driven and led by the great demon, rushed into the inner and outer star seas in waves, destroying all ships in their path.

What's more, the swarm of sea beast monsters continued to rage for a long time and continued to attack every ship on the sea crazily.

Facing the endless crazy sea beasts, ships are unable to move and maritime traffic is cut off. The islands in the Broken Star Sea will inevitably become "isolated islands". Once the siege and blockade lasts too long, the cutoff of trade will be secondary, and hunger will be the most terrifying thing.

Since the human race in the Broken Star Sea has multiplied to this day, the population on the islands has mostly exceeded the capacity. The output of one island alone is far from enough to provide food, and they must always rely on external food supplements.

If the siege lasts for a long time and there is not enough food rations on the island, the tragedy of everyone eating each other will inevitably occur.

This is not sensational, but something that is bound to happen during every Kraken tide.

Of course, no matter how miserable the mortals end up, most of them will not affect the immortal cultivators themselves.

Therefore, a considerable number of immortal cultivators turn a blind eye to the misery of mortals, and are even happy to see the burdensome population reduced.

Some scum demon cultivators even jokingly call the sea monster tide a "population screening" of the human race by Heaven, with the purpose of weeding out the rubbish idiots and filtering out the good blood.

For some of the cultivating forces, what they are more concerned about and heartbroken about is that the undersea spiritual veins, spiritual fields and spiritual mines that were opened up after all the hard work were destroyed and occupied by the sea beasts.

This is the real "catastrophe". This is mostly the reason why the sea monster tide is hated by all immortal cultivators.

Back to business!

There are more than 200,000 members of the Zhao clan living on the small islands near Qionggui Island.

The demon tide comes and the sea route is cut off.

Tribesmen are the foundation. The Zhao family cannot just watch more than 200,000 tribesmen being killed or starved to death, so they must ensure smooth traffic between the islands.

Zhao Sheng was entrusted with important tasks as soon as he arrived, which shows the Zhao family's dilemma of insufficient manpower.

After understanding the meaning of Zhao Yunxian's words, Zhao Sheng nodded, "Thanks to the trust of the family master, I will leave the Qionggui treasure ship to Pindao."

Zhao Yunxian looked extremely moved: "Taoist Master understands the righteousness so deeply that I can't express it in words. I know that sailing in the demon tide is very dangerous. In order to ensure the safety of Taoist Priest, these are a few defensive spiritual weapons collected by our clan. Also, Please choose one, Taoist Priest."

As he spoke, he took out five aura-filled items from his storage bag and placed them in front of Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng took a quick look and eliminated the two armor-like spiritual weapons first.

Although he can't be called a swordsman, he still follows the path of being light and agile. The armor is too bulky and not suitable at all.

Excluding the armor, there are three shield-like instruments left. A dark brown tortoise shell shield, a light red unknown metal shield, and the last spiritual weapon has a very strange style.

The strange thing about this spiritual weapon is that its surface is a round black shield about a foot in diameter, but it is made up of six small pure black shields about the size of a palm.

With Zhao Sheng's eyesight, he couldn't tell what materials it was made of.

At first glance, it looks like hard and smooth horny animal hide, but it has an obvious metallic luster. And if you look closely, you can see that the leather surface is covered with countless tiny black scales.

Seemingly seeing that Zhao Sheng was most interested in this special magical weapon, Zhao Yunxian smiled slightly, reached out to pick up the magical weapon, and introduced: "Taoist Priest has a good eye! This Liuhe Ephemera Shield is the highest grade among these five spiritual weapons. , a single-sided spiritual shield is a middle-grade spiritual weapon, but when combined, it is a top-grade weapon.

The key is that it is a very rare combined spiritual weapon, consisting of six-sided shields.

Each sub-shield is made from the toughest skin on the lower abdomen of the second-level mayfly demon ray.

You must know that the Mayfly Demon Ray has the title of having the strongest defensive power among sea creatures of its level, so there is no need to emphasize the strength of these spiritual shields.

Not only that, the key point is that the materials for these six-sided spiritual shields are taken from the same mayfly demon ray, and the internal spiritual taboos are almost the same, and an extremely rare psychic taboo is also engraved into them.

Let me first demonstrate its mystery to the Taoist priest. "

As he said that, Zhao Yunxian stretched out his hand and pointed at the Liuhe Ephemera Shield, with a flash of light in his eyes.

Then he saw the Liuhe Ephemera Shield slowly floating from the table into the air.

Suddenly, it suddenly dispersed into six black streams of light, like swimming fish, spinning up and down, left and right around Zhao Yunxian, looking very flexible and fast.

What's even more eye-opening is that each sub-shield can be combined at will.

In the air, sometimes they are surrounded by one side, sometimes they are combined in twos and threes, sometimes they are six pieces in one.

Seeing Zhao Sheng's extraordinary splendor, I was very excited.

Zhao Yunxian saw Zhao Sheng's expression and couldn't help but said proudly: "This Liuhe Ephemera Shield is one of the last three legacy works of our ancestor Xuanji. If it weren't for you, Taoist Master, I would never have taken it out. "

After hearing his words, Zhao Sheng nodded first, then shook his head and said: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, are you really willing to give this Liuhe ephemeral shield to a poor Taoist? Aren't you afraid that after I take the spiritual shield, I will run away without keeping my promise?" ?”

"Don't be afraid! I have always used people without suspicion, and I don't trust people with suspicion. And I also believe that the Taoist priest will not be that kind of person." Zhao Yunxian said confidently.

After hearing this, Zhao Sheng nodded secretly, feeling that the Broken Star Sea clan was finally reliable and had chosen the right family leader twice.

Zhao Xuanji is the leader of the Zhao family's resurgence. He led the Zhao family from the brink of destruction, developed and expanded through various obstacles, and finally occupied an island of spiritual land. His achievements are unmatched by anyone in the Zhao family.

Although Zhao Yunxian is not as good as Zhao Xuanji, he is still considered outstanding as the head of a clan.

The Zhao family has further developed under his hands, and the atmosphere within the family can be considered harmonious and united.

Just as he was thinking this, Zhao Yunxian next to him smiled and said: "To be honest with Taoist Master, this Liuhe ephemeral shield is not perfect, it also has many flaws.

First of all, the manipulation is too complicated, and requires extremely high spiritual strength and precision of the cultivator. It is best to have the talent of multi-tasking. Ordinary foundation building can't control it at all.

Furthermore, it is composed of six middle-grade spiritual weapons. This means six times the speed of spiritual energy consumption. This alone eliminates those cultivators below the middle stage of foundation building. "

After saying this, Zhao Yunxian paused and said tentatively: "If the Taoist priest doesn't like this Liuhe ephemera shield, why not take a look at this Nether Bone Heart Shield."

"No! That's it." Zhao Sheng suddenly waved his hand, interrupting the other party's words, and cut the golden path.

Zhao Yunxian felt happy when he heard this.

Judging from the tone and demeanor of Zhao Keqing's words, the opponent's cultivation should be at least in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and most likely in the late stage of foundation establishment.

If this is the case, the Zhao family has really received a big helping hand.

Zhao Yunxian's mind turned, and his expression suddenly changed. The Liuhe ephemeral shield suddenly merged into a black round shield, and floated staggeringly towards Zhao Sheng.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Sheng smiled slightly, the divine light in his eyes exploded, and the powerful spiritual consciousness burst out of his body in an instant, covering the Liuhe Ephemera Shield in an instant.

With a thought, he easily "seized" the ownership of the spiritual shield.

Looking at the mayfly shield flying in front of him like a butterfly through a flower, and feeling the astonishing consciousness in the void, Zhao Yunxian's eyes were filled with brilliance, and he was very excited: "Late stage of foundation building! It's really late stage of foundation building! This is really a blessing from God. Clan. Thank you Ancestor Xuanji!"